Tech Won't Save Us
Silicon Valley wants to shape our future, but why should we let it? Every Thursday, Paris Marx is joined by a new guest to critically examine the tech industry, its big promises, and the people behind them. Tech Won’t Save Us challenges the notion that tech alone can drive our world forward by showing that separating tech from politics has consequences for us all, especially the most vulnerable. It’s not your usual tech podcast.
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Episodes (362)
Net-Zero Uses Technofixes to Delay Climate Action w/ Sabrina Fernandes
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How Amazon is Changing the Books We Read w/ Mark McGurl
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Why the Metaverse Must Be Stopped w/ Brian Merchant
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Can Nostalgia Inspire a Better Future? w/ Grafton Tanner
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What Gig Work Means for Women in India w/ Noopur Raval
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Beating Uber at the UK Supreme Court w/ Yaseen Aslam
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Solidarity in Canada’s Gig Economy w/ Jennifer Scott & Brice Sopher
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Gig Work is Not a Novelty in Brazil w/ Rafael Grohmann
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The Fight for Gig Workers’ Rights in Europe w/ Ben Wray
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Migrant Workers in Australia’s Gig Economy w/ Tyler Riordan
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How Race Was Central to Prop 22 w/ Veena Dubal
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The Amazon Union Drive Comes to Canada w/ Sara Mojtehedzadeh
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What Apple Won’t Tell You About the iPhone w/ Brian Merchant
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The Creation of a Black Cyberculture w/ André Brock
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Big Tech Entrenches US Power w/ Michael Kwet
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Blockchain Won’t Save the Global South w/ Olivier Jutel
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How Neoliberalism Seized the Internet w/ Dan Greene
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How Smart is the Smart City? w/ Shannon Mattern
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How Australia Used Tech Against Welfare Recipients w/ Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran
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How Streaming is Reshaping the Film Industry w/ Peter Labuza
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Demystifying the Billionaire Space Race
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“Sleep Dealer” and the Border Politics of Tech w/ Alex Rivera
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Tech Criticism Before the Techlash w/ Zachary Loeb
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Bitcoin is a Right-Wing Technology w/ David Golumbia
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VCs Want to Disrupt the Media w/ Eoin Higgins
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Facebook Is A Battleground w/ Avi Asher-Schapiro and Maya Gebeily
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Embracing Glitch Feminism w/ Legacy Russell
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The Sunset of the Californian Ideology? w/ Richard Barbrook
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Why the Soviet Union Didn’t Build the Internet w/ Benjamin Peters
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Project Cybersyn Shows All Tech is Political w/ Eden Medina
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How Many Times Has the Internet Already Died? w/ Kevin Driscoll
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How State Funding Built Silicon Valley w/ Margaret O’Mara
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Celebrating One Year of Tech Won’t Save Us!
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What’s Next for Amazon Workers? w/ Kim Kelly
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Vaccine Passports Are Not the Solution w/ Elizabeth Renieris
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Bursting the NFT Bubble w/ Jacob Silverman
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Digital Redlining in the Frictionless Society w/ Chris Gilliard
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Elon Musk Isn’t Saving Humanity w/ Manu Saadia
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How Britain Killed its Computing Industry w/ Mar Hicks
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Is Bill Gates a “Good” Billionaire? w/ Tim Schwab
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How Algorithms Are Transforming Work w/ Callum Cant
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Why We Need a Luddite Politics of Tech w/ Gavin Mueller
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Australia’s Plan to Make Tech Pay for News w/ Lizzie O’Shea
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How Indonesian Gig Workers Are Organizing w/ Rida Qadri
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Amazon’s Vigorous Opposition to Unions w/ Lauren Kaori Gurley
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How Nostalgia Serves Corporate Power w/ Grafton Tanner
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How YouTube Normalizes Right-Wing Extremism w/ Becca Lewis
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Why We Need a Democratic Approach to Data w/ Salomé Viljoen
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The Frictionless World of Silicon Valley w/ Anna Wiener
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Platforms for Public Good w/ Mathew Lawrence & Thomas Hanna
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